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Just For Today, Do Not Anger

This second of five principles is found in the Usui system of Reiki and it does appear to be that easy. Here’s what I mean.

Read it again. It has two distinct parts:

1. Just for today
2. Do not anger

I want to look at each part separately.

Just For Today
Be here now. Be present. It reminds me of “The Power of Now” by Eckhart Tolle. There IS power in the current moment.

“Current.” That’s interesting. I just realized that this current is what sweeps me away in my anger. My focus is a laser aimed at the injustice, the disappointment, or the loss. Like a river gushing furiously over huge boulders.

BUT……the reality is that I have a choice.

Quantum physics tells us that time is not linear. All that is, all that was, and all that…